[PATCH qemu] aspeed: add support for a witherspoon-bmc board with 128MB flash chip

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 5/22/19 11:58 PM, Adriana Kobylak wrote:
> 
>>> >>> Should we introduce a machine option to set the model name of the
>>> >>> FMC flash chip ? I think I tried that in the past but at the block
>>> >>> level and mainline did not like it. But we could try at the machine
>>> >>> level.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Anyhow, it's a good way to debug flash issues on real HW.
>>> >>
>>> >> Eh. I'm not fussed by a new machine. I wouldn't do anything for the moment.
>>> >
>>> > We could instead add a swift machine with the 128MB NOR. When we get a
>>> > model for the SD/MMC it would use that too.
>>>
>>> OK. That's a good direction.
>>
>> Adriana, could you take this on?
> 
> Yeah, was thinking about it when Cedric sent out this patch, but since theoretically the witherspoon128-bmc model could be used with a swift image, I put it to the side. But now that you mention it, yeah we can add the SD/MMC to it later so that'd be valuable to have in a qemu model. Will send a patch based on the 128 for a new swift bmc to start with.

Yes. I suppose this machine will have a different layout of I2C devices also,
different HW strapping, etc.

Thanks,

C.